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Official Competition
Directed by
Mariano Cohn
,
Gastón Duprat
R
2022
1h 54m
[Comedy](/on-demand/category/comedy), [Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)
7.0
96%
78%
6.6
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A wealthy businessman hires a famous filmmaker to help make a smash hit film.
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Cast of Official Competition
Antonio Banderas
Félix Rivero
Penélope Cruz
Lola Cuevas
Oscar Martínez
Iván Torres
José Luis Gómez
Humberto Suárez
Manolo Solo
Matías
Nagore Aranburu
Julia
Irene Escolar
Diana Suárez
Pilar Castro
Violeta
Koldo Olabarri
Darío
Juan Grandinetti
Ariel
Jean Dominikowski
Felix's Self-defense Coach
Amanda Goldsmith
Félix's Girlfriend
Mary Ruiz
Félix's Girlfriend
María Guinea
Félix's Girlfriend
Isabel García Lorca
Art Director
Xana del Mar
Art Assistant
Melina Matthews
Director of Photography
Sue Flack
Costume Director
Lucía Arestegui
Wardrobe Assistant
Pilar Bergés
Cleaning Staff
Official Competition Ratings & Reviews
Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)
Ty Burr
You know how most of the foreign language movies we get in the US are weighty, meaningful dramas? This one isn't that. This one's enjoyably silly.
DwightBrownInk.com
Dwight Brown
As the art of filmmaking takes a punch in the face, audiences will love the pummeling and laugh themselves silly.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Chronicle humans at their worst... with visual wit and from a wry remove.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Makes for a delightful satire and is always entertaining.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
This is like comedy for the mind. But whatever you want to call it, it's intellectually satisfying, in that it presents a skewed but unified vision of reality.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
As much fun as Cruz is clearly having, and that's a lot, Banderas may be having even more.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
A sly satire of cinema that also manages to be a showcase for the comedic chops of its stars: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Claudia Puig
Penélope Cruz underscores that she can just do anything. She is so funny in this.
FilmWeek (LAist)
Amy Nicholson
Everyone is so, so funny in this. I love this stage of Cruz's career.
Salon.com
Gary M. Kramer
Cohn and Duprat are deliberately, deliciously playing into this discussion of talent vs. fame.... Banderas gives a sly, knowing performance that shows he knows exactly how vainglorious Félix can be
Los Angeles Times
Sarah-Tai Black
A coy satire that makes welcome use of biting meta-commentary and self-reflexive critique.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
All three actors are clearly having a blast with this satire of actorly egos and vanity projects, but it's Cruz who truly dazzles.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Zoller Seitz
Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat (who also collaborated on the script) have a sharp eye and brilliant timing, and often manage to wring laughs just from the sight of a character picking up an object, or leaving or entering a room.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
"Official Competition" is nicely balanced, and the poiser-in-chief is Cruz, whose portrayal of Lola goes way beyond simple wackiness.
Wall Street Journal
Kyle Smith
Official Competition does indulge in superficial satire, but Messrs. Duprat and Cohn have devised some plausibly, and hilariously, bizarre scenarios to go with a smart central insight about the nature of film.
Rolling Stone
David Fear
This is really one person's showcase, and whether by design or simply default, Cruz slips Official Competition into her slim-suited pockets and walks away with the film.
Tribune News Service
Katie Walsh
At the heart of the smart and spiky "Official Competition" is the question of what makes art "good," as well as the futility of applying such a banal label to something that can be moving, transportive or challenging.
AV Club
Mark Keizer
Consistently amusing, if about a reel too long, it's a tightly controlled, low-boil send-up of the acting process.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
In the end, this is a one-joke movie - a shaggy-dog meta-narrative - but it's not a bad joke.
Slant Magazine
William Repass
Official Competition is another film about filmmaking, but it escapes hermeticism by homing in on actors and acting.
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